Table of Contents: October 2006

Image Credit: Cover design by Natalie Davis, Public Library of Science, with images from the US Library of Congress (an image used by Dorothy Porter in her article) and Tavis Ford

The cover image takes its theme from Dorothy Porter's article, which looks at the historical roots of social medicine and asks where it is heading. The article is part of a special collection of eleven magazine pieces and five original research papers examining social and cultural aspects of medicine and health and the socioeconomic determinants of disease.